Establishing Settings for Your Message

Whether you've created a blank email message or built one from a Word document, when you open Word's email tools, you can enter, edit, and format your message. You can also do the following:

  • Specify recipients (primary, “carbon copies,” and “blind carbon copies”)

  • Specify a subject for the message

  • Add file attachments

  • Set the importance of your message

  • Check to make sure that you typed the recipients' names properly

  • Create follow-up reminders for yourself

  • Prepare a blind carbon copy, which prevents others from knowing that a given individual received it

  • Add file attachments

  • Set various other options

These tasks are covered in the following sections.

NOTE

Much of the coverage in this chapter assumes that you are also ...

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